Country of citizenship: Mexico. US visa: H1-B Marital status: single
Current address: 247 East Cloverhurst Ave, Apt 2, Athens, GA 30605, USA.
Telephone numbers: Home: (706) 559-9527; Work: (706) 542-2604.
Fax: (706) 542-2573 E-mail address: lvalero@math.uga.edu
Web-page: http://www.math.uga.edu/~lvalero/
Master's Degree: MSc, awarded by UNAM in 1992.
Ph D: June 1998, University of Minnesota.
Ph D Adviser: Professor Peter Webb.
Primary Research Area: Algebra, Representations of Finite Groups (# 20 of the AMS Mathematics Subject Classification)
"Some simple projective Brauer quotients of simple modules for the symmetric groups in characteristic two", submitted to the Journal of Algebra.
"Two-regular partitions and Alperin's weight conjecture for the symmetric groups in characteristic two", submitted to Communications in Algebra.
Co-author of the appendix of the book "The cohomology rings of finite groups". The text of the book is being written by Jon Carlson and Lisa Townsley Kulich. The "appendix" is more than half the size of the book, and consists of the computations of the cohomology rings of all 2-groups of order 64 and smaller, including not only the description of the cohomology ring as polynomials with relations, but also information about the restrictions and transfers of maximal and maximal elementary abelian subgroups, inflations from maximal quotient groups, and groups of automorphisms, among other things. Jon Carlson wrote the original software in Magma to compute the cohomology of these groups. Mucheng Zhang and I have modified this software extensively. The book will be published by Kluwer academic publishers.
Teaching assistant, UNAM, 1988-92.
Teaching assistant, University of Minnesota, 1992-98.
Postdoct, University of Georgia, 1998-2001.
Fellowship awarded by UNAM, 1989-92.
Lecturer in the High Academic Demand Program (``Programa de Alta Exigencia Académica'', PAEA), School of Chemistry, UNAM, 1991-92.
Graduate School Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1992-93.
Teaching assistant for the University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program (UMTYMP), 1993-94.
Teaching Opportunity Program for Doctoral Students (TOPDS), University of Minnesota, 1995.
Citation for Excellence in Teaching, University of Minnesota, 1996.
Lead workshop instructor for one of the Calculus Initiative courses, University of Minnesota, 1996-97.
Teaching Award, given by the Student Government Association of the University of Georgia, 1999.